#houdini

There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general. ↗

— James Randi

#act #always #clear #escape #general

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#culture #famous #get #hard #houdini

Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do. ↗

— John Hodgman

#debunking #friendship #harry-houdini #spiritualism #friendship

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini. ↗

— David Blaine

#houdini #i #i always #kid #obsessed

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line. ↗

— David Blaine

#digital #down #great #houdini #i

No one has the Houdini school of composition. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#houdini #school